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my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps. cxix. 105. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. Cowper.

An occupier of land. Cowell.

A tax on wares sold by the last. [Obs.] Cowell.

One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.

An arbitrator. [Obs.] Cowell.

es: Skr. bhatr, L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dha to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. -- Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws or expressions of the order of the planetary motions, discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The or…

A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]

Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. "Leafless groves." Cowper. -- Leaf"less*ness, n. Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, n., 1 and 2.

construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc. [Obs.] Cowell. Blackstone.

White-livered; cowardly.

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion. Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread. Cowley.

is up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.

Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long- horned.

longitude of their cloaks. Sir. W. Scott. Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense. Cowper.

ne, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for. (a) To ex…

e; as, to love books; to love adventures. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. Cowley.

To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.